Currently the United Kingdom is going through the process of attempting to negotiate and navigate Brexit, the exit of Great Britain from the European Union. Many eyes have been focused on the UK, and specifically the business of the House of Commons and their back and forth with Prime Minister Theresa May. One thing that…
One of the hottest political topics currently in the zeitgeist is the “Green New Deal” that first year Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fancifully proposed and most of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are supporting. For a variety of reasons, this proposal has received a great deal of criticism. Incorrectly, Representative Ocasio-Cortez seems to think no one…
Secession has increasingly been in the news recently. Technically, what is being discussed is partitioning usually, but the word secession catches people’s attention more. After President Trump was elected in 2016 the idea of California seceding from the US was proffered. Since the 2018 mid-term elections, Upstate New Yorkers have again been discussing secession from…
In our current environment, the person serving as the President of the United States has unfortunately been a divisive factor. Generally the President is considered to be the most powerful person in the country, if not the world. With a pen and paper, as President Obama quipped, the President can do quite a bit through…
On Tuesday February 5, 2019 President Trump delivered his second State of the Union address, and what a speech was! Like most political speeches, this one speech was the good, the bad, and the ugly, all together like a crumpled up piece of paper. He swung back and forth like an unbalanced pendulum in a…